Drummer Boy

We like to make up songs and words to our own songs too. Caleb has taken it a step further by making up his own language for his made up song.

Old!

The other night, Caleb and I were talking about how old he is. Then we started talking about how old everyone else is. This is how it ended:

Dad is OLD!!!!!!! I thought it was so funny that I had Caleb call Chris and tell him over the phone. Now Caleb asks all the time if he can call dad on the phone and tell him he's old.

I shouldn't admit it, but the other day we were all discussing it again and totally unprompted, Caleb says, "No, dad not old. Mom old." WHAT?!? Talk about your all time backfire! I can't believe he could even conceptualize it, let alone say it. Let alone betray me like that. :)

p.s. Do you like the bruise? Caleb had a run in with the sidewalk, and the sidewalk won.

Four Times the Fun

Lots of fun at our house lately.

First of all, Caleb and Chris went to their first father/son campout on Friday night. Tilane was nice enough to have some of the girls over to her house and we had lots of fun! Thanks, Tilane! Chris and Caleb had lots of fun too. But, alas, in true Caleb form, he would not go to sleep. About 12:30a.m. when Caleb was still completely wired and keeping everyone else from sleeping, they packed up and came home. (Poor Chris was way tired too since he had worked on Wednesday night until 1:30a.m. and Thursday night until 5:30a.m. and back at work by 7 or 8a.m.--he is a crazy working man these days!) Thanks to the Snells for sharing your tent and letting Caleb keep you awake half the night and to Stephen for joining in the fun!



Secondly, Saturday was commencement for Chris. He will be finished with his MBA in August, but they had him walk early since they don't have a commencement ceremony after summer semester. We are VERY PROUD of Chris and all his hard work and the achievement of a SECOND masters degree. More proof that he is a crazy man, huh?!? One more semester! Yahoo! My favorite part of commencement was at the very end when a Mariachi Band came out to play the processional for the graduates to leave the building. Everyone went CRAZY! Only in Texas.







Thirdly, we had an awesome mothers day. No pictures, but lots of love and gifts. And thank you to the Weatherholtz Family who once again had us over for an awesome dinner and tons of fun. I think this was really one of the first mothers days that I was truly just happy for the time I did have with my mom before she passed away, for the legacy she left, for the other "moms" I've had in my life, and for the opportunity I have now to be a mom-- instead of sad for the time I didn't get.

Fourthly, and the best yet, we get to have the famous ones-- Kip D (my brother) and Bridget (his wife)-- stay with us for the summer. They arrived on Saturday. Kip is in law school and got an awesome internship here for the summer. Bridget will hopefully get a sweet summer job too--so if you know of any sweet jobs for an awesome almost finished english major, let us know!! Kip and Bridget are so much fun and we love hanging out with them. Caleb can't get enough of them! The first words out of his mouth this morning were not hi mom, or love you mom, or good morning. Nope. His first words were"Bibetts?" "Dip?" (his version of their names). We are looking forward to a very fun summer! This is an old picture, but it works, right?

(later I will have to do a post on the many sarcastic faces of Kip D. He refuses to just smile for the camera. Ever.)

Finals and Frogs

Chris finished up his last final for the semester on Saturday! Whew! Another semester done! Now he has more time (until the summer semester starts) to teach Caleb things like this:

Actually, I think Caleb came up with this on his own, it was just encouraged by others. Hmmm...it seems like the rule was no climbing on the living room table. But I guess if you're doing cool jumps, an exception must be made, right?!? :)